Insights

Industry relevant resources, updates and insights from the Velocity Legal team.

News

3.7.2025

3.7.2025

1 minute

Sascha Kenny: Doyle's Guide Rising Star in Commercial Litigation & Insolvency Law 2025

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News

30.6.2025

1.7.2025

1 minute

Promotions: Bryan Yeo and Edward Hart

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Insight

12.6.2025

30.6.2025

5 minutes

ATO Dispute Guide: Stages and Processes of a Tax Dispute

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Insight

16.6.2025

16.6.2025

Subdivided Property: Is Your Sale Taxed on Revenue or Capital Account?

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News

11.6.2025

11.6.2025

2 minutes

Franking Credits Denied: The 45-Day Holding Rule and Newly Incorporated Corporate Beneficiaries

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Insight

27.5.2025

28.5.2025

Asset Protection Strategies Every Advisor Should Know in the Face of Rising Insolvency

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Insight

27.5.2025

27.5.2025

5 minutes

Wealth and Asset Protection: Why It Matters Even When Your Business Is Thriving

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Insight

27.5.2025

27.5.2025

3 minutes

Navigating Insolvency: Essential Asset Protection Strategies for Australian Business Owners

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News

28.4.2025

28.4.2025

3 minutes

Jennifer Maher Named in 2026 Best Lawyers in Australia™

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Insight

16.4.2025

16.4.2025

5 minutes

How to Avoid Commercial Lease Traps in a Tenant’s Market

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Insight

27.3.2025

27.3.2025

3 minutes

Commercial Leasing: Hidden Clauses That Landlords (and Tenants) Often Regret

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News

25.3.2025

25.3.2025

10 minutes

Federal Budget 2025-26: The Essential Tax Update for Private Businesses and their Owners

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Insight

18.3.2025

17.3.2025

5 minutes

Protecting Business Secrets: Practical Steps to Safeguard Confidential Information

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Insight

5.3.2025

5.3.2025

5 minutes

Unpaid Present Entitlements are Not Division 7A Loans: What Does the Bendel Case Mean?

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

5.3.2025

3.3.2025

5 minutes

Property Settlements and the Bank of Mum and Dad: Protecting Family Contributions

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News

12.2.2025

12.2.2025

5 minutes

Brad Marland joins Velocity Legal as a Director

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Insight

6.2.2025

6.2.2025

10 minutes

Australia’s New Thin Cap Rules

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

31.1.2025

31.1.2025

5 minutes

The Importance of ABN vs ACN Registrations on the PPSR

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Insight

22.1.2025

22.1.2025

5 minutes

Supreme Court Confirms Rent Review Caps in Retail Leases Are Valid

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Podcast

28.11.2024

20.12.2024

Understanding the Legal Landscape of Restraints of Trade

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Katherine Stewart

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Insight

13.12.2024

13.12.2024

5 minutes

Damages for Psychiatric Injury in Employment Dismissals - The Elisha Decision

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Katherine Stewart

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Podcast

22.11.2024

27.11.2024

Understanding and Managing Payroll Tax Investigations

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Insight

26.11.2024

26.11.2024

5 minutes

Vacant Residential Land Tax in Victoria: Changes From 1 January 2025

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Insight

22.11.2024

22.11.2024

The Legal Landscape of Post-Employment Restraints

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Katherine Stewart

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News

14.11.2024

14.11.2024

5 minutes

Natalie Rossi joins Velocity Legal as a Senior Associate

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Podcast

22.11.2024

5.11.2024

When Founders Feud: The Power of Shareholders Agreements

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News

4.10.2024

17.10.2024

5 minutes

Lauren Gross Shortlisted for Australian Women in Law Awards

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News

10.10.2024

10.10.2024

5 minutes

Emily O'Brien joins Velocity Legal as a Special Counsel

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Podcast

8.11.2024

7.10.2024

Current Individual Tax Residency Rules

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Podcast

30.8.2024

20.9.2024

Fitouts in Leases - Practical Insights

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News

17.9.2024

17.9.2024

5 minutes

Velocity Legal named as a Leading Wills & Estates Planning and Litigation Law Firm for 2024

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Insight

6.9.2024

12.9.2024

5 minutes

Determining the Market Values for Small Business CGT Concessions - Moloney's Case

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Insight

6.9.2024

6.9.2024

5 minutes

Death and the Main Residence Exemption

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

15.8.2024

15.8.2024

5 minutes

Landholder Duty without acquiring shares or units? Takeaways from Tao v Commissioner of State Revenue (Review and Regulation) [2024] VCAT 637

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Podcast

1.8.2024

9.8.2024

Share Sales vs Business Sales: Breaking Down the Differences

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Insight

2.8.2024

2.8.2024

10 minutes

Will Section 99B Apply to Your Trust Distribution? - Takeaways from TD 2024/D2 and PCG 2024/D1

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News

26.7.2024

26.7.2024

5 minutes

Rohan Kelly joins Velocity Legal as a Senior Associate

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News

11.7.2024

11.7.2024

5 minutes

Sascha Kenny joins Velocity Legal as a Senior Associate

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Podcast

31.5.2024

9.7.2024

Understanding Business Restructures: Practical Challenges and Potential Reforms

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News

27.6.2024

27.6.2024

5 minutes

Velocity Legal named as a Top Boutique Law Firm

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News

14.5.2024

20.6.2024

5 minutes

Demian Walton joins Velocity Legal as a Director

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Podcast

31.5.2024

14.6.2024

Commercial and Industrial Property Tax (CIPT) Reform

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Podcast

10.5.2024

28.5.2024

Mediation in Family Law: Tips, Tricks and Timing

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News

28.5.2024

28.5.2024

5 minutes

Velocity Legal Successful in Federal Court: Overturning AAT Decision on Property Trust Income Assessment

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Insight

16.5.2024

16.5.2024

10 minutes

Replacing Duty with an Annual Tax - Commercial and Industrial Property Tax Reform Act 2024 (Victoria)

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Insight

14.5.2024

14.5.2024

10 minutes

Federal Budget 2024-25: The Essential Tax Update for Private Businesses and their Owners

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Archana Manapakkam

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News

9.5.2024

9.5.2024

5 minutes

Elisha Raucci joins Velocity Legal as a Senior Associate

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News

7.5.2024

6.5.2024

5 minutes

Andrew Henshaw Named Tax Partner of the Year Finalist

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Podcast

22.3.2024

2.5.2024

Confidential Information: Navigating Protection and Misuse

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Insight

29.4.2024

1.5.2024

5min

Small Business CGT Concessions Guide + Flowchart [2024]

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Insight

22.3.2024

22.3.2024

5 minutes

Getting Ready for the Right to Disconnect

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Katherine Stewart

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Podcast

28.2.2024

19.3.2024

Guide to Startups (including Legal Basics, Capital Raising and Future Opportunities)

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Insight

30.1.2024

30.1.2024

10 minutes

Commercial and Industrial Property Tax Reform - Big Changes in Victoria from 1 July 2024

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News

15.12.2023

8.1.2024

5 minutes.

Allison Nicholls joins Velocity Legal as a Special Counsel

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Insight

13.12.2023

13.12.2023

5 minutes.

‘Tis the Season to be Vicariously Liable – Sexual Harassment in the Workplace

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Katherine Stewart

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Insight

13.12.2023

12.12.2023

5 minutes.

Transferring Property from a Discretionary Trust to a Beneficiary – is it really exempt from transfer duty? Lessons from Baullo v Commissioner of State Revenue [2023] VCAT 1164

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News

7.12.2023

6.12.2023

5 minutes.

Seamus Ryan Joins Velocity Legal as a Director

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News

30.11.2023

30.11.2023

5 minutes.

Rosalind Li Named as a Finalist in 30 Under 30 Awards

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Insight

23.11.2023

22.11.2023

Christmas Shutdowns – A Timely Reminder About Annual Leave

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Katherine Stewart

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News

10.11.2023

9.11.2023

5 minutes.

Velocity Legal named as a Leading Tax Law Firm for Seventh Consecutive Year

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Insight

3.11.2023

2.11.2023

10 minutes.

Division 7A Win for Taxpayers: Unpaid Present Entitlements Not Loans for Division 7A Purposes

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Archana Manapakkam

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News

20.10.2023

19.10.2023

5 minutes.

Velocity Legal donates $7,518 to The Smith Family

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Insight

16.10.2023

16.10.2023

10 minutes.

New Penalties for Unfair Contract Terms: Is Your Business Compliant?

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Insight

25.9.2023

25.9.2023

10 minutes.

Deceased estates and the small business CGT concessions

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Archana Manapakkam

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News

14.9.2023

14.9.2023

5 minutes.

Velocity Legal and Jennifer Maher recognised for excellence in Wills, Estates & Succession Planning

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Insight

28.8.2023

28.8.2023

10 minutes

When Working From Home Isn't Working

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News

20.7.2023

20.7.2023

5 minutes

Robert Osler Joins Velocity Legal as a Special Counsel

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News

6.7.2023

10.7.2023

5 minutes

Bryan Yeo joins Velocity Legal as a Senior Associate

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News

3.7.2023

3.7.2023

5 minutes

Joel Garrett and Lauren Gross promoted to Senior Associate

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Insight

15.6.2023

15.6.2023

5 Minutes

Employer's policies stymied dismissal for kneeing NDIS participant in the head

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Insight

5.6.2023

5.6.2023

5 minutes

Pay Secrecy Deadline Fast Approaching

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Insight

9.5.2023

9.5.2023

20 minutes

Federal Budget 2023-24: The Essential Tax Update for Private Businesses and their Owners

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

8.5.2023

8.5.2023

10 minutes

Finding staff is the current issue, restructures could be the next

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News

5.5.2023

8.5.2023

5 minutes

Isobel Feben joins Velocity Legal as a Special Counsel

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Insight

5.5.2023

5.5.2023

5 minutes

Back to Basics - Common Mistakes Employers Make with their Policies

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Insight

6.4.2023

6.4.2023

5 Minutes

Are Any Trusts Family Law Proof?

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Insight

27.2.2023

27.2.2023

5 minutes

Director and Shareholder Liability in Proprietary Limited Companies

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Insight

15.2.2023

14.2.2023

10 minutes.

Tax on dying of a broken heart… 2 years on

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

15.2.2023

14.2.2023

5 minutes

Taxation of deceased estates and the double death conundrum – has the Commissioner offered a way forward?

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

8.2.2023

7.2.2023

10 minutes

Beware: Part IVA could apply to Trust Distributions to Bucket Companies

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Insight

31.1.2023

31.1.2023

5 minutes.

Telecommunications Leases: what to expect when a network carrier comes knocking

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Insight

15.12.2022

15.12.2022

5 minutes.

Forcing Out a Business Partner: Proceed with Caution

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Insight

6.12.2022

5.12.2022

5 minutes.

Franchising Disclosure Register - Last Minute Expansion

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Insight

28.11.2022

28.11.2022

10 minutes.

Main residence mishaps: What happens when your main residence is owned by a company or trust?

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Podcast

22.11.2022

21.11.2022

45 minutes.

Podcast: How to decide on business structures & selling your business

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News

17.11.2022

17.11.2022

2 minutes.

Velocity Legal donates $6,142.64 to the Cancer Council Victoria

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News

28.10.2022

31.10.2022

5 minutes.

Archana Manapakkam joins Velocity Legal as a Special Counsel

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Archana Manapakkam

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Insight

28.10.2022

27.10.2022

5 minutes.

Unfair Contract Terms - New Risk of Penalties

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Insight

24.10.2022

25.10.2022

15 minutes.

Federal Budget 2022-23 (Take Two): The Essential Tax Update for Private Businesses and their Owners

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News

18.10.2022

18.10.2022

5 minutes.

Velocity Legal named as a Leading Tax Law Firm for Sixth Consecutive Year

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Insight

17.10.2022

17.10.2022

10 minutes.

The Great Debate – When is a Lease a Retail Lease?

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News

12.10.2022

12.10.2022

5 minutes.

Jennifer Maher joins Velocity Legal as a Director

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Insight

4.10.2022

3.10.2022

5 minutes.

New Landlord Disclosure Statements in December 2022

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Insight

27.9.2022

26.9.2022

5 minutes.

Illegally green: ACCC paints ‘greenwashing’ as an enforcement priority

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Insight

16.9.2022

15.9.2022

3 minutes.

Act by 20 September to secure priority registration for a ‘.au’ domain name

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Podcast

6.9.2022

6.9.2022

Podcast: The Carter Case - No Disclaimer of Present Entitlements

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Insight

25.8.2022

25.8.2022

10 minutes.

Anti-Phoenixing Laws: An Overview

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Insight

23.8.2022

23.8.2022

10 minutes.

Avoiding Buyer’s Remorse - Business Purchase Due Diligence

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News

17.8.2022

17.8.2022

5 minutes.

Velocity Legal named as a Top Boutique Law Firm

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Insight

16.8.2022

15.8.2022

10 minutes.

Challenging the Control of Discretionary Family Trusts – reflections on Owies v JJE Nominees Pty Ltd [2022] VSCA 142

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